they are reminding me to speak in english because i'm having problems with that. i'm really overwhelmed right now. i was looking down from the airplane and it seems like everything wasn't real. what is important for me to say is thank you to everyone who has believed in me, who has defended me, who has supported my family. my family is the most important thing to me right now and i just want to go and be with them. so thank you for being there for me. [applause] >> obviously very grateful amanda knox. she's back on her hometown seattle soil.

we are hearing from her for the first time since she was acquitted in italy. her plane landed a few minutes ago. she left italy this morning. she spent the last four years in prison in italy. she was convicted of murdering her british college age roommate but in a stunning reversal yesterday an italian appeals court throw out the conviction. judge ordered knox released immediately. tonight she and her family are pack home in seattle and we will continue to follow the breaks news story and bring you any new developments. but right now we can't help but want to ask new jersey governor chris christie, is that your final answer? >> for months i have been adamant about the fact that i would not run for president. my language was clear and direct, no matter how many times

i waasked the question. for me the answer was never anything but no. my job here in new jersey is my passion. i've alleges meant it when i feel like the luckiest guy in the world to have this job. i'm doing a job that i love, in the state i grew up in, on behalf of some of the toughest and greatest people in this country. it wasn't until recently that i paused to really reflect on my decision. when you have serious people from across the spectrum, not to mention that all across the country, passionately calling on are to do something as consequential assurin fourth president of the united states, i felt an obligation to earnestly consider their advice. together with mary pat and our children, i believe i had an obligation to seriously consider what people were asking me to do. i'll always be grateful for their confidence in me. over the last few weeks i've thought long and hard about this decision. i have explored the options and i have listened to so many people and considered whether this is something i needed to take on. but in the end, what i've always felt was the right decision remains the right decision today. now is not my time.

i have a commitment to new jersey that i simply will not abandon. that's the promise i made to the people of this state when i took office 20 months ago, to fix a broken new jersey. and when i look at what we've accomplished so far, i'm proud, but i know we aren't nearly done. i've made this commitment to my state first and foremost. the people sent me to trenton to get a job done, and i'm just not prepared to bach away. >> my loyalty is what it is. abraham lincoln said i would like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. i would-like to see a man live so his place will be proud of him. that's how i feel in my heart about new jersey. i'm proud of this state and its people, and i know there is still much more we need to do together to ensure the future we

want for all of our children. so this is not the time to leave unfinished business for me. the stakes are too high and the consequences are too real. so new jersey, whether you like it or not, you are stuck with me. let me say this, i'm grateful. i'm grateful to the many people, both in new jersey and around the country, who have spoken to me over these last weeks and months. i'm grateful for their confidence in me. i'm grateful for the faith that they place in me. it's been unbelievably humbling and inspiring. i can only hope that i'm able to live up to this confidence and to make it count to do the job i need to do here at home. >> well, in case anyone, especially anyone in the media wonders, that was a no from governor christie again. meantime there's a lot of intrigue in the race for president tonight.

good evening, karl rove. >> good evening. how are you? >> i'm good. do you think he means no? >> absolutely. no. he has spoken. >> this is bizarre what has been going on. he said no about 50,000 times and nobody believed him. >> i think he said no 50,000 times but i do think -- i think he was right, when the kind of people that came to him and encouraged him to think about this, henry kissinger, chuck swab, a large number of names that leaked into the public environment, and he owed it to them and he owed it to himself to take a careful look at it, and it sounds like from his statement today he did so and came up with the same conclusion that he went in with. but he's right, when those kind of people approach you and said you need to think seriously about this, he had to think seriously about it. >> so who wins today? what candidate benefits from him being a no again?

>> well, that's -- let's step back for just a minute because this is one of several big actions that has impacted the race. we've had the recent debates, which have advantaged some candidates and disadvantaged others. and the pace of those debates is going to continue. we've got two more in october, we have some in november, we have some in december. second, the big thing that impacted all of this is that 1/2 moved up its primary to the 28th of february -- excuse me, 28th of january which is causing other states to move earlier. effectively reduce big one quarter the amount of time people have to campaign. and then you have crist tick the discussion about him ten today keep people from making a decision and getting involved and now that's been removed. my suspicion is all of these things tend to advantage two people, one is romney, who has performed well in the debates and has maintained a consistent performance and sort of moved consistently forward, and then the not-romney candidate. at the beginning of this period

a couple weeks ago that was governor perry. today that candidate appears to be herman cain. >> in terms of romney, i'm sort of curious about that. some people have said today that governor romney does benefit from governor christie not being in the race, but it seems to me the people went to governor christie is becae they weren't wild about the race, which included governor romney. if they were so enthusiastic about it they wouldn't have gone to christie. so i'm not so sure that romney picks up christie's enthusiasm. >> i'm not either but i think he's more in a position to pick it up because he's now back in the position of being the frontrunner. we saw it in the washington post abc poll, for example. romney 25, herman cain and rick perry tied at 16 each. that's down 13 for perry since the last abc poll and up 12 for herman cain. so mit romney is in a place where he can take advantage of

this. the front runner always gets an advantage when people who have been setting on the side loins romaine on the sidelines, and herman cain i suspect will gain a little bit on this. this will ultimately come down to a romney and not-romney candidate, in my opinion. and herman cain, who benefited from a good performance in the debate and a surprise win or a series of straw poll wins have taken advantage of those to jump up in the polls. >> the last hour i saw a cbs poll that had herman cain tied, i think cbs tied with governor romney. does that sort of thank your thinking if indeed that poll is more recent? >> yeah. i haven't seen that poll, but all these polls are happening with such speed and the washington post abc poll, for example, came out two days ago. let's take a deep breath. let's turn the tape back four years ago to this very time. fred thompson had closed within

7 points of rudy giuliani. it was a 28-21 race. john mccain was stuck at 14. mitt romney was at 10. mike huckabee was just about 6 points, and all the focus was on the tightening, the move upward by fred thompson and rudy giuliani it dropped a little bit and people seemed to be consolidating into a thompson-giuliani race and as we know that's not how it turned out in 2008. >> the polls are taken, and maybe you can explain this, but they are national polls and it seems the person who gets the nomination wins in iowa, wins in new hampshire and on to nevada so even if you are winning the polls nationally, if they love you in california and love you in the state of washington, big deal. it's how they like you in the other states and those are the polls, if i was running, i would be more interested in. >> you are absolutely right. first of all, remember, when we poll in primaries, it's hard to figure out exactly who is going to vote. so a nation-wide poll is more

like just sort of a testing of general sentiment, not of what actually might happen in those early primaries. you are right, what is going to matter here is iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. whoever wins the preponderance of those contests will tend to go with a head of steam into florida and nevada and michigan and arizona, the contests that follow, with a pretty good momentum. and remember this, iowa is a caucus. so you have roughly anywhere from a quarter to a third of the people who voted in the republican primary will actually turn out for a caucus in iowa. could be 120,000, 130,000. bush won it with 31%. good news for candidates is they get a ticket out of iowa to go to new hampshire, the good news is whoever is strong in new hampshire, and new hampshire doesn't pay attention what happens in iowa but south carolina pace attention to what happens in new hampshire.

he found himself considerably behind in south carolina after he did so. he had 19 days to recover. this time around the candidate may have ten days to recover or maybe a few days more than that but they won't have 19 days as bush had in 2000. so this contest is going to -- you are right, herman cain now needs to make certain he has dug in in iowa because he needs a breakthrough there or he may find himself out of the running again. >> at the risk of being barred from going to iowa for the iowa caucus, let me ask you about that. so the fairness of that. there's some talk about isñr it really fair that iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina, and nevada, they determine the candidate for a party or the country. in iowa ice -- ice a caucus. if you work night, other he not like you can vote and go to your job but it limits who can

participates. fair criticism or not? >> oh, it's a fair criticism. there's one more thing, it's not like an election where you go, you stand in line, you vote and you leave. you have to go to a meeting and sit there for the meeting as it organizations itself. the meetings may take two or three hours before they come to the voting part of t people get to speak, people get to organize, so forth. here's the problem. this is what it is. we've had iowa, we've had south carolina and new hampshire for decades. it will be hard it replace them. both parties agreed what they would try to do is begin this process a little bit later. we are likely to have the iowa caucuses, because of this move by florida, really on, you know, right after new year's eve. in 2000 it was like the 3rd of january. we had people still nursing hangovers from new year's at the caucuses. the two parties put in place rules that were designed to have the process started in february and stretched out longer over

february, march and april. and florida, by jumping ahead, has caused a cascade of people to move forward. as a result we will have a bunch of con tests in january, a couple of contests the beginning of february and then at the end of february. and then we will pick up in march as it was. but the attempt is to make it more representative of the country. >> why does it hurry the candidates to squash them together? i hear how terrible it is that florida jumped the line but what is the practice effect? why do the candidates hate this? >> first of all it means they have to run through the christmas holiday. if you have a primary happening in early january, you are fighting the holidays, you know, and cutting up your own. you are running -- you have to run very hard. you have to pack more events into every day, you have to campaign every day because every day becomes that much more crucial. and it means that you spend less time in these states. rather than having 19 days, for

example, between new hampshire and iowa, we may have as little as ten days. rather than having, you know, a contest on, you know, there will be seven days between iowa and new hampshire which is sort of normal, but all the rest of the times are going to be compressed. florida, for example, is a big state. you are going to have literally a matter of days to jump from airport to airport and television station to radio show in a very compacted period of time, which means whoever starts to get momentum and whoever has money tends to keep the momentum and tends to get more money. you know, we have less of a chance for somebody who breaks through by having a six or seventeen days of sustained cam campaigning retail efforts throughout an entire statent now you are jumping from state to state, living on an airplane and getting exhausted exhaustedt doing particularly well most the time. >> somebody like governor romney

has been campaigning since 2008 and someone like herman cain who wants to get out and shake hands, he needs as many days's can get on new hampshire is great for him. >> absolutely. >> i guess the question is for those running a long time, it sort of squeezes the other person. what is it about herman cain? why is he surging? >> well, look, incidentally, the converse of what you say is sometimes if we know them well and we've seen them a lot, they are old and familiar, they aren't exciting. and one of the things that's working to herman cain's advantage is he exudes passion, he has a lot of enthusiasm, he has a simple message, 9-9-9 and he has jumped to the front as other people have been vetted both by the press and in the debates. he's been okay in the debates performance. he's shown performance and has a simple presentation that grabs people's attention and does well on the retail stump. he went to the florida poll and wowed people and governor barry

said my fate is in your hands and got beaten. this shows herman's strength as a retail campaigner. but sometimes you are right, the old and familiar sometimes has an advantage, but sometimes the fresh and new and oftentimes unvetted sometimes has the advantage. >> well, i guess the policy, i've been watching president obama in particular the past couple days and yesterday george stephanopoulos said he's the underdog. it seems like such a defeatist attitude, and even his campaign people have said on the air, it really sort of subs the oxygen out of the air when you say i'm the underdog, i'm the one who has all the big problems. maybe that's a better -- what do you think about that? maybe that's a better position for him in this campaign. >> we do like underdogs and we do like comebacks. the problem for the president is over the last couple months, attitudes about his re-election has changed dramatically and might become a self fulfilling

prophesy. 55% of the american people say they believe a republican will be elected next fall. and 30-some odd percent believe president obama will win re-election. by a 2-1 margin, those who believe they will definitely not vote for them outnumber those who have definitely vote for them so he's now in a very bad situation. this has helped herman cain. herman cain has prospered in part because tea party members and supporters have flocked behind them and conservatives who watch the debates thought he did well and governor perry did badly. so this has helped him in the process as he's gone forward. the president is in a bad place but we can't rule him out. he's going to raise a billion dollars, he is the president and he will come hard and fast over whoever the nominee is. they will be pummeled in the ads and the white house press machine and it won't be a pretty site. they better be prepared. already the president is taking shots on his opponents. he and his apparatus are taking

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>> okay. here's the question. did u.s. attorney general eric holder lie to congress? his testimony about the fast and furious gun program is coming under fire d he know a whole lot more a lot sooner than he told congress. white house is urging a special

committee to investigate. so what's the problem? >> let's put this in context. fast and furious is a debacle. it was a gun operation that went bad. you covered it from the beginning. and i have been covering it. and chairman and senator grassily have been holding comprehensive and important hearings on. this they just released new documents this week and they say eric holder new about fast and furious before he said he did. we need to look at these. these are memos from justice department officials in october and in july of 2010. months before the border agent was killed, months before people ever heard of fast and furious. but what they say, there was a big gun operation going on at the border. >> two, actually two. two gun operations. >> that's a different e-mail, but these ones going to eric holder talk about fast and furious, a big gun operation involving guns ending up in mexico. they do not get into any of the controversial tactics, the

tactics of the atf agents allowing the guns to walk. the 2000 guns of that been allowed to be basically get out on the street and get into mexico. none of that is in these memos. >> but some are redacted, blackened? >> oh, yeah, there's huge chunk of blackened so we don't know what they say. but what we do see does not relegal veal the tactics that one would expect eric holder to say, whoa, what's going on in this case. >> so basically there's a little smoke, not necessarily a fire. there's something -- i mean, the memos with the topic supposedly crossed his. we assume he saw them but we don't know to what extent he knew what was going on in the underlying; that it? >> exactly. assuming he received them and read them and remembered them, he knew the words fast and furious. they went back farther than what he said in the hearings. >> one of the things in washington, it's always the, quote, i hate to use the word coverer up, but the drip, drip,

drip, trying to get information. is the justice department turning over everything as rapidly and as easily and quickly to the house that they are asking for it? >> well, i heard senator grassily say it's not fast enough. the justice department is saying they are doing it as fast as they can. but let he point out one more thing about the memos. the charm himself was briefed last year as holder was briefed but gun operations on the boarder, and maybe even fast and furious in name came up, but what he said and his staff said they never new the tactics and that's exactly what eric holder is saying. >> basically we need nor information and it would be hoove them to move quickly and they say they need a special investigator to investigate whether eric holder committed perjury. and perjury is not just a

mistake, it has to be material. >> exactly. the chairman of the judiciary committee has asked for a special counsel. something eric and grassily are not necessarily excited about because they feel that will delay documents coming to congress. but one thing that came out which is news is there's reference to a whole new gun operation that we didn't know about called operation wide receiver. >> which predated it. >> which predated it. it was in the bush administration. predated eric holder and there are memos that say guns walked in that operation. >> same sort of idea, they watched them being purchased illegally, going into new mexico and the whole theory trying to catch drug cartel activity with the guns. >> that's right. the agents watched small town buyers buy and pass to middle men and get into mexico. >> and the bottom line, the justice department will talk and give them as much as they want it will go quickly, but otherwise it to be a bigger

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there were e-mails warning against the 2010 presidential visit to solyndra. as you know, they filed bankruptcy about five weeks ago and now us taxpayers are on the hook for $525 million lone n releasing those e-mails recently, the democrats were trying to show the government-backed lone was not politically motivated but does this show something worse, they are incompetent? is it simply incompetent or whatever? joe stevens joins us. who released these e-mails and what are they? >> they were released by the democrats on the house energy and customers committee, led by henry waxman, and they are really shockers. we didn't know this was going on. they include e-mails from the people right around the president, valley jarrett, emmanuel, and ron, and they are discussing solyndra, what the chances are and whether it's a good idea to let the president go do a photo open on a factory

that's paid for with a government lone and a a lot of people were saying this is dangerous. there was a person who invested in solyndra, a venture capitalist said this is a good deal for us but i don't know if it's a good deal for taxpayers. >> why did they release the e-mails to show it was not politically motivated? what it did so it is incompetent, and i think it's almost easier to cure someone being politically motivated than incompetence. what was the point in releasing the e-mails? >> they knew it would come out. the republicans on the committee have been investigating solyndra six, seven months now. they knew it would come out. does the majority decide when it comes out or the democrats? they say they wanted to show that the story lineup cans have been building is perhaps they were doing favors for friends who had invested in the company,

the imam because administration has and these do not support that and cut the other way. and these particular e-mails, more will come out. they seem to cut the other way but they show a lot of concern. >> that's where i'm hung up on it. let's say it's not politically motivated, it was profoundly stupid. it doesn't make me feel any better. >> right. >> that's what i don't get. i'm thinking i would never have released them the way the democrats did. i would have at least tried to cover my tracks a little better. that's really fascinating. they also show the people at the top are interested, they show a division between the department of energy on one side saying go, this is a good investment, and people in the white house and office of management and budget saying no, this is scary, this can really cost us trouble down the line. >> valley got a warning, don't send the president, essentially, and the president went. didn't she get the e-mail with a chose proximity to when the president went? >> right. there were forwarded e-mails around may, 2010 when the

president was getting ready to go. she ultimately said she was advised that it's okay, and she said if you are comfortable, i'm comfortable. >> who was she getting her comfort from, the department of energy? >> indirectly from the department of energy, yeah. they were saying this -- this is normal. they had a bad auditor's report saying solyndra may not be a going concern down the line which is really serious in auditor's language and someone wrote back and explained this is common for a start-up, that they often this liquidity problems and we aren't really worried. >> except they already missed the $5 million payment six months earlier? there were a couple place. >> the main flags were the auditors were saying this is looking bad to us. >> and it is really looking bad to us right now. joe, thank you. >> thank you. >> coming up, it's urgent, and it's a big problem. what is it? jobs. senator john mccain goes on the record next. oops, he did it again.

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>> senator john mccain goes on the record in just 60 seconds but first let's go to our new york newsroom. we have the other headlines. >> greta, thank you. new details surrounding the deadly helicopter crash in new york city's east river. the pilot and three passengers survived. a 40-year-old woman died. police say that she apparently became trapped inside the helicopter as it was sinking. it's unclear what caused the crash. witness say the chopper seemed to be suffering a mechanical problem. a dust storm turning deadly along i10. the blinding sand causing three different pileups, tilling one man and injuring more than 15 others. two of the injured are said to be in critical condition. the storm also leaving a beige

haze hanging over the phoenix area today, obscuring the view of the mountains. we now return to "on the record" with greta. thanks for watching and have a great night! >> the unemployment rate still at 9.1% and congress still can't agree to even report on a jobs bill. earlier tonight we asked senator john mccain what it will take to get some jobs someplace in this country. we also asked him about his recent trip to libya. >> nice to see you. >> nice to see you. >> you are just back from libya. tell americans, what are we getting out of america? i hate to be so selfish, but what are we getting out of it. >> we are getting out of it people who are able to determine their own future, out from under the heels of a cruel and mercyless dictator who is responsible for the deaths of some 90 americans. and we can get economic value

with u.s. investments and trade with a country that is awash in oil money. there's some $130 billion in frozen assets around the world of gadhafi's, and they are very appreciative of what we have done. they wish we would have done more. so do i, but the fact is they are appreciative. and i should also mention the problems is they don't have a national army, it's full of militias with varying degrees of loyalty to the tnc. so we have to have a national army. the biggest thing the united states to could do right now is to help them with the wounded. they have some 30,000 wounded, some of them maimed, some of them amputees, and if we could provide them with medical acision stance, i would send a hospital ship to tell them. we have a hospital shim in germany. we could send some there. they don't have the ability to treat the thousands of wounded

and many more wounded are coming in as we speak because the fighting continues. lindsay graham, marco rubio and mark kirk and i went to the hospital. we saw these people, people who are amputees. the united states has the medical capability, and by the way, they would reimburse us for those expenses. >> where is gadhafi, by the way? does anyone know? and when we find him, what should happen to him? >> well, there's been varying reports. i fear that one of the friendly african countries may take him. but i would like to see him in the international criminal court. he is guilty of war crimes, the bombing of pan am plane. the libyans would like to try him in their own courts. but my personal preference would be in the international criminal courts. >> didn't we take him off the terror lift, the state

department's terrorist list a few years back? >> well, the fact is he was cooperating on nuclear materials that he had. he did turn them over. there's no doubt that there was a period where the administration -- and from their perspective at the time, i can see why they took the steps that they did. but one of the things we have to worry about is literally thousands and thousands of these hand-held, shoulder-held, anti--air missiles that he had vast inventories of, some of which have gone missing. that's one of the many challenges that we face in libya. >> one of the challenges here is jobs in the united states. how are we doing on the job front? >> well, i notice that the majority leader announced that maybe he would be taking up the jobs bill. i will be interested in seeing that since there are a number of the democrats who are very uneasy about it and may have difficulties voting for it. i think we republicans need an

alternative jobs bill so that we can show the american people that we have an alternative that will actually help the economy rather than raise their taxes, and more of the same that didn't work the last time we tried a $787 billion stimulus bill. so i think that the democrats may move something, but i would be -- i would be very interested to see the outcome. >> where is the republican bail? what is the republican idea? >> think we have a lot of good ideas, repeal obama care, cut the corporate tax from 35 to 25. we now have the highest corporate tax in the world. and an issue that you are interested in, repatriation of money overseas that we would like to see brought back and invested in jobs in the united states, which we could do.

a moratorium on federal regulations, a moratorium on federal hiring. a number of steps we could take, making tax steps permanent to continue to stimulate the economy. that, coupled with spending cuts, in my view, is the recipe for getting our economy going. and restoring the confidence of business, small and large, so that they will invest. as you know, businesses are sitting on larger amounts of money than maybe anytime in our history, but they don't know when the next regulation is coming down to hit them. a business executives of it to this openly. they don't know when the next time their taxes are going to go up. so give them the confidence of a secure future of how they can invest and create jobs and we can get out of this mess we are in. >> an issue relating to your home state of arizona, operation fast and furious. congressman mark smith has written a letter to the president asking for a special prosecutor to investor attorney

general eric holder. he testified before congress that he apparently recently heard about the operation and they found some memos that show maybe he was notified much earlier than that. do you support the calling after special prosecutor in this instance? >> i have been talking about it with john kyle, my fellow senator, and arizona members of congress from arizona. because brian terry, the border patrol agent was killed in arizona. the majority of this activity took place in arizona. texas, as well. but a lot of it in arizona. so we are talking about it, and we will reach a decision in the next day or two. but frankly, greta, i don't get what part of the congressman's question that eric older didn't get when he said when did you first find out about this? and the attorney general of the united states said he didn't understand the question. that's -- that's very interesting.

>> the special prosecutor or not? >> we are leaning towards it, but i want to talk with the whole delegation and act as a unified delegation. we all represent the state of arizona where a lot of this happened. >> governor christie said today no means no. he said it a million times but he said it again today. taking governor christie out of the race, any thoughts on the republican field or how the race is progressing? >> well, obviously i regret that he didn't come into the race. i think he would have been a strong candidate. i think that there is still a number of twists and turns before this thing is decided. the one thing i have learned is the media wants a race. i don't know who they will be, but they want a contest. mit romney seems to be doing well and we could handicap all of the different candidates, but i'm confident that at the end of january or february or march, whenever ihg( decided, that we will have a strong candidate who

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considering offering two-year marriage contracts. couples unwilling to commit to death to us part. death til we part. go back. until death do us -- i said it in my wedding. yes. til death to us part. >> he's going to still hate us but it was cute doing it n addition we want to tell you it's bret and amy's 7th anniversary this weekend. happy anniversary and what is if bret is still talking to us. thanks for being with us tonight. and make sure you go to greta wire.com and let us know what you thought about tonight's show, i put an open thread up right now. o'reilly factor is next. good night from washington, d.c.. and bret is going to kill all of us now. i think. i'm afraid of him now. >> o'reilly factor is on. tonight...